CLASS II. i. 3.' 4- OF SENSATION- W 



.When women are affected with this complaint, after the 

 f welling of the parotis and maxillary glands fubfides, tumor with 

 pain is liable to affect their breads ; which, however, I have nev- 

 er feen terminate in fuppuration. 



On the retroceflion of the tumor of the teftes above defcribecl, 

 and I fuppofe of that of the breads in women, a delirium of the 

 calm kind is very liable to occur ; which in Come cafes has been 

 the firft fymptom which has alarmed the friends of the patient-; 

 and it has thence been difficult to difcover the caufe of it with- 

 out much inquiry ; the previous fymptoms having been fo flight 

 as not to have occafioned any complaints. In this delirium, if 

 the pulfe will bear it, venefeclion mould be ufed, and three or 

 four grains of calomel, with fomentation of the head with warm 

 water for an hour together every three or four hours. 



Though this difeale generally terminates favourably confide.r- 

 ing the numbers attacked by it, when it is epidemic, yet it is 

 dangerous at other times in every part of its progrefs. Some, 

 times the parotis or maxillary glands fuppurate, producing ul- 

 cers which are difficult to cure, and frequently deflroy the pa- 

 tient, where there was a previous fcrophulous tendency. The 

 teftis in men is alfo liable to fuppurate with great pain, long con- 

 finement, and much danger ; and ladly, the affection of the 

 brain is fatal to many. 



Mr. W. W. had a fwelled throat, which after a few days 

 fubfided. He became delirious or ftupid, in which date he was 

 dying wAen I faw him ; and his friends afcribed his death to a 

 coup de foleil, which he was faid to have received fome months 

 before, when he was abroad. 



Mr. A. B. had a fwelling of the throat, which after a few 

 days fubfided. When I faw him he had great dupor, with flow 

 breathing, and partial delirium. On fomenting his head with 

 warm water for an 'hour thefe fymptoms of dupor were greatly 

 leflened, and his opprefied breathing gradually ceafed, and he re- 

 covered in one day. 



Mr. C. D. I found walking about the houfe in a calm delir- 

 ium without ftupor ; and not without much inquiry of his friends 

 could get the previous hidory of the difeafe ; which had been 

 attended with parotitis, and fwelled tedis, previous to the deliri- 

 um. A few ounces of blood were taken away, a gentle cathar- 

 tic was directed, and his head fomented with warm water for 

 an hour, with a fmall blider on the back, and he recovered in 

 two or three days. 



Mr. D. D. came down from London in the coach alone, fo 

 that no previous hidory could be obtained. He was walking a- 

 bout the houfe in a calm delirium, but could give no fenfible 



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